Unmotivated

I've been pretty unmotivated recently. It's hard having no job and no money, especially knowing that you might not be going back to University any more because the Job Centre is potentially going to screw you over royally. I've read a couple of articles recently about how people are abusing the welfare system and about how too much money goes towards welfare. Fuck that. The welfare state in it's current state is a sham and the only way to rescue it is to throw more money at it. There aren't enough people problems and their no apologies approach is absolutely disgusting. No matter how much they screw up it is never their fault and always the customer's fault. I have been fighting tooth and nail for money to survive on for the last 5 months and I haven't received a penny so far. How do they expect anyone to get back to work with this approach.

Fucking cunts

Moving Spaces

Okay. I'm moving to a new blog, at least temporarily. I called up Falmouth this afternoon about the possibility of switching courses to Fine Art. It didn't go amazingly well. It sounds like I'm going to have to work the craft course for a while and even then it might not be doable. If I get the opportunity to present my work to the Fine Art department if any spaces become available I need to demonstrate that the fine art course is undoubtedly more suitable for me than the craft one. That means stripping away all the some of the excess bullshit and building a body of strong, clear, coherent pieces over the next 8 weeks. Don't overwork anything too much and make sure that I understand what it is that I'm trying to explore with each piece and try to put across only that.

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I'm not sure if this works... :S

I'm not sure if the two ways of painting gel... Or maybe they would if I'd used the same colours... Or maybe I've just don't like it because I've been staring at it all day. There's my first big painting done either way

Big Isometric Field Painting

My first "big" painting in 6 years. It's not that big really... It's just that everything I do is tiny. I've decided to call these "Isometric field paintings" (the square ones are "grid field paintings")

Loose Isometric Layered Painting

It's a bit rough round the edges but it's only a tiny one. I think it's the best one I've done so far. I've stumbled on a way of making it look like refracted light is coming through the grids although I could do with practising it on a larger scale. Acrylic on canvas

A wee test I did in my sketchbook just to see how the outlining might work. Emulsion and water soluble crayons on paper.

Trainers and Painting

Another experiment. I tried to be more loose and instinctive with this. I also tried to work more with the qualities of the paint rather than trying to draw with it and played around with mixing a range of tertiary colours rather than just sticking with secondary and primaries. I think I overworked it although it does have potential.

The vertical lines took a while!.

I found working to a 3d form was useful for getting started. I imagined I was looking at a pixelated image of a gem with various different coloured lights on it to start and then the rest was on the fly improv.

I got some cheap white trainers and had a go at giving then a paint with colours I had left over from my symbols painting too!

Just playing around in photoshop. I prefer this to my actual piece.

I'm calling this finished now. I'm not sure that it works. It's trying to do too much at once. I was interested in how groups of lots of different colour shapes would read and whether you could sort of have various shapes existing through each other using this approach and they did, kinda. And then I added seperate shapes using flat colour underneath the symbols to see whether they would read at the same time as the top ones and they do kinda. They also affect the above shapes and it all kind of blends in a strange way. I dunno. I'll have to look at it in a few days with fresh eyes...

This is the same painting but I photoshopped the horrible "listerine" blue into a less harsh colour. I think it ;ppls better this way. I might take out both light blues completely at some point. That "&" sign needs sorting out pretty badly too!